Chester 2nd Line Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the 2nd Line Support role in IT contracts within the Chester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited 2nd Line Support in their job title over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Second Line Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Beaconsfield Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckfastleigh Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Huntingdon Isle of Man Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Thatcham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	28
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.552 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£156	£182
% change on same period last year	-14.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.93	£15.38
% change on same period last year	+3.61 %
Job Titles Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	200	181
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.326 %	0.198 %
Daily rates quoted	27	22
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£281
Average daily rate	£269	£288
% change on same period last year	-6.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£272	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	55	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.54	£26.61
Average hourly rate	£24.13	£26.82
% change on same period last year	-10.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.73	£27.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.18	£23.82
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
2nd Line Support Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

2nd Line Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

2nd Line Support
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the Chester region.

2nd Line Support
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 2nd Line Support across the Chester region.

2nd Line Support
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited 2nd Line Support in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with 2nd Line Support in their job title.

1 1 (100.00 %) SQL 1 1 (100.00 %) IIS 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (100.00 %) Broadband 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 1 (100.00 %) Citrix 1 1 (100.00 %) Citrix Certification 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (100.00 %) PDA 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 Server

2nd Line Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region that cited 2nd Line Support in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with 2nd Line Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (100.00 %) IIS 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) Broadband	Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows XP 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (100.00 %) Windows 2000 Server	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) Citrix Certification	System Software 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Citrix